Cop Quotes

Arnold Schwarzenegger blew away dozens of cops as the Terminator. But I don't hear anybody complaining about that.

And eat lots of mints, it fools the cops.

You got a cop under five feet tall, what if he's gotta plant evidence on a high shelf? What then? What if he's gotta chase a suspect onto a ride at Disneyland?

All the cops are just workers for the one percent, and they don't even realize they're being exploited.

I like to stay within the context of the character's background. If he's a cop, I have to make sure the audience is convinced that this person, a cop, can do only so much without a gun.

My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.

It's a lot of crooked cops out there. They manipulate the system.

I'm an L.A. girl who became a tough New York cop.

It really bothers me when some people say that all cops are racist. Of course that's not true. Most of you are just [expletive] to everybody.

Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop.

'The system made me do it' is the perfect cop-out for today's managers.

Know my feelings about traffic laws? Cop didn't see it? I didn't do it.

I'm not a fan of justifying bad behavior or justifying why people are the way they are. I think that's a cop out. I don't have a lot of empathy for that.

Now I know why guys like to hug girls. You guys just want to cop a feel. I can't believe that I've fallen for it all these years!

I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.

Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.

Murder is such a charged word. You know how some people fixate and won't let things go? They're called cops.

Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS program under the Clinton administration.

I've never been a cop nor hope to be a cop, thanks.

I'm a very intermediate sax player, but now that Rob Lowe is on my show, I had to cop to him. Like, 'Dude your ridiculous fake sax playing [in St. Elmo's Fire] inspired me to pick up a horn.'

My show is not just a cop hosting a talk show - the two are completely different. My show is about helping people stand up to the bad guy.

The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.

Negotiating with Disney isn't like good cop/bad cop; it's like bad cop/Antichrist.

In comedy, I hate that cop-out where you say, "Just kidding." I know you're just kidding. Don't insult my intelligence by spelling it out for me that much.

Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there.

People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be greater or are important to win and people want to use excuses all the time.

I'd defend myself. But I don't go around shoving people around; that's not me at all - that's for a cop. I'm not into that type of behavior at all.

Anybody who thinks talk is cheap has never argued with a traffic cop.

I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops.

Three weeks hadn't changed Cop Central. The coffee was still poisonous, the noise abominable, and the view out of her stingy window was still miserable. She was thrilled to be back.

Oftentimes, when people write me 4,000-word letters, I write them back and tell them if their problem's that complicated, they probably need a lawyer or a cop, and not me.

I've only played gangsters and cops, and I always have to be serious.

I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing bad guys up against the wall.

When I was a kid watching "The Blues Brothers," I could not think of a better thing than watching 300 cop cars crash into each other.

Gloucestershire police must be the envy of the human rights-abusing cop world. From Turkey to Indonesia they will say, 'Kidnapping peace protestors! How did they get away with that one?'

I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.

I've always thought live albums were cop-outs.

It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.

I always thought that the badge a cop has was more like the shield that Captain America has. It's an obvious sign of good and something you'll protect other people with, but it will also protect you.

I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.

See you told me I would lose but I won. I might cop a million Jimmy Choos just for fun.

The last thing a real cop wants to do is write a ticket. That's the truth.

I get too involved with my job. If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.

I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.

I would never defend a cop - though I did on a few private cases, when cops were acting not as cops but as private citizens.

Post-apocalyptic novels tell you that in the future there is some great war. I would tell you that most cops say that it's going on right now.

We make violent cops, we make violent criminals, and no wonder we have shootouts in slums all of the time.

It would probably be too easy a cop out to say that just Republican males hate me. Though there's a large swath of them, for sure.

I'm a former mayor. I know that being a cop is not an easy job. But when police officers misbehave, they've got to be held accountable.

I don't want to play fat cops for the rest of my life.